The Marriage Plot cover

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides

406 pages

About this book

The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation

Themes
Heartfelt & EmotionalMelancholic & NostalgicPhilosophy & Big IdeasThought-ProvokingSlow BurnLove's impossible geometryMental illness as metaphorThe weight of literary theory
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